Hi, This is Bug 91089. https://bugs.launchpad.net/rosetta/+bug/91089
ZhongHan >From: Steve Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Protecting launchpad users from spam-bots. >To: verb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: Carlos Perell? , [email protected], Jeroen > Vermeulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >verb wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to know if there is any planned action to protect launchpad > > users from spam-bots.When I searched for my email address in google , it > > appeared that the only place I had my email address written in clear was > > launchpad ,which is unfortunate. > > > > Hope to get a reply soon and thanks in advance. > >That's interesting. When I search google for my address, I see the top >hits in a GPG keyserver, then in various bugtrackers for MochiKit and >Debian, and lists.ubuntu.com. > >But I don't see it in Launchpad at all. > >When I search for your email address in Google, I see a hit for >Launchpad, on this translation page: > >https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/+source/yelp/+pots/yelp/ar/+translate?start=250 > >Sure enough, when I look there, various email addresses are visible. > >This is a bug, and I apologise for that. We should not be displaying >full email addresses on the translation page that is visible to >anonymous users and search robots. > >I'm cc-ing members of the Rosetta team, so that they can get this fixed. > >-- >Steve Alexander > > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 4 >Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 00:12:08 +0200 >From: Steve Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Protecting launchpad users from spam-bots. >To: verb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >Hi Ali, > >I don't know if my previous reply got through to this mailing list. I >know you received it personally, as you sent me a reply. > >Anyway... it's a bug in Launchpad that your email address has been >visible to Google. I apologise for that. > >I've just put a work-around in place in Launchpad. If you look at the >pages for translating the "translator-credits" string when you are >logged into Launchpad, you will still see your email address there, >along with that of other translators. > >However, if you log out of Launchpad, and look at the same translation >page, the "translator-credits" string and its translations is hidden. >This will prevent Google and other search engines from indexing those >email addresses. > >Here are the three pages I found via Google. You can try them out, both >logged into Launchpad, and not logged in. > >https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/+source/yelp/+pots/yelp/ar/+translate?start=250 > >https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/dapper/+source/alacarte/+pots/alacarte/ar/+translate > >https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/+source/xubuntu-docs/+pots/desktopguide/ar/+translate?start=530 > > >The Rosetta team will look at making a better solution next week. > >Thank you for reporting this problem, and I apologise again that we >leaked your email address to be indexed by Google. > >-- >Steve Alexander > > > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to know if there is any planned action to protect launchpad > > users from spam-bots.When I searched for my email address in google , it > > appeared that the only place I had my email address written in clear was > > launchpad ,which is unfortunate. > > > > Hope to get a reply soon and thanks in advance. > > > > Ali > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Find just what you are after with the more precise, more powerful new MSN Search. http://search.msn.com.sg/ Try it now. -- launchpad-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/launchpad-users
